All,
We have been giving users access to our Open OnDemand server which is running on a VM separate from the cluster. Under the hood they use our shared cluster /home directory mounted over NFS.
The issue that we are running in to is that users cannot launch interactive apps until they log in to the cluster through the Clusters - Shell Access dropdown first via OnDemand. They have logged in to our cluster via SSH before and therefore have a /home directory, however, when they go to our OnDemand site they need to hit ‘yes’ on the [SSH: The authenticity of host loginnode.oursite.edu can’t be established] prompt that very first time to add the login node for our cluster to their ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. Otherwise, on launching the apps they’re getting a “Host Key Verification Failed” error message if they do not.
This has been causing some confusion and we’ve been getting a few questions. How are other sites handling this? I was thinking it maybe possible somehow to add the cluster login node to the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file on login, otherwise I don’t really know how else to bridge that issue. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.